Alice Walker Quotes

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1944

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I don't think drums had ever sounded so big until Led Zeppelin's first album.

Jimmy Page

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We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Jesse McCartney

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I'm too short to play basketball and too nervous to steal.

Melvin Van Peebles

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I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.

Mayer Hawthorne

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I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.

Maxine Waters

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If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Anita Baker

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If Ambassador Grenell is unwilling to refrain from political statements, he should be recalled immediately.

Jeanne Shaheen

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There are so many good stories about the Vikings.

Travis Fimmel

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If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

Michael Winterbottom

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When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

Michel Hazanavicius

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I was very hungry to compete internationally when I was 10 years old, and I was good enough to compete, so that part never made me afraid or worried at all. When I was at my peak, around 12 and 13, I won my junior national and senior national titles back to back.

Dominique Moceanu

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We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that.

Drew Brees

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